diff --git a/metaschema-cli/pom.xml b/metaschema-cli/pom.xml
index d3d538961..904db4f88 100644
--- a/metaschema-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/metaschema-cli/pom.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@
 			<groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spotbugs-annotations</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
+		
+		<dependency>
+		    <groupId>io.github.hakky54</groupId>
+		    <artifactId>logcaptor</artifactId>
+		    <version>2.9.2</version>
+		    <scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+			<artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
+			<version>3.24.2</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>			
 	</dependencies>
 
 	<build>
diff --git a/metaschema-cli/src/main/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLI.java b/metaschema-cli/src/main/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLI.java
index 5e12fce1c..60f673d76 100644
--- a/metaschema-cli/src/main/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLI.java
+++ b/metaschema-cli/src/main/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLI.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 package gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli;
 
 import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.commands.GenerateSchemaCommand;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.commands.QueryCommand;
 import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.commands.ValidateContentUsingModuleCommand;
 import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.commands.ValidateModuleCommand;
 import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.CLIProcessor;
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ public static ExitStatus runCli(String... args) {
     processor.addCommandHandler(new ValidateModuleCommand());
     processor.addCommandHandler(new GenerateSchemaCommand());
     processor.addCommandHandler(new ValidateContentUsingModuleCommand());
+    processor.addCommandHandler(new QueryCommand());
 
     CommandService.getInstance().getCommands().stream().forEach(command -> {
       assert command != null;
diff --git a/metaschema-cli/src/main/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/commands/QueryCommand.java b/metaschema-cli/src/main/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/commands/QueryCommand.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..54b6d045c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metaschema-cli/src/main/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/commands/QueryCommand.java
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+/*
+ * Portions of this software was developed by employees of the National Institute
+ * of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the Federal Government and is
+ * being made available as a public service. Pursuant to title 17 United States
+ * Code Section 105, works of NIST employees are not subject to copyright
+ * protection in the United States. This software may be subject to foreign
+ * copyright. Permission in the United States and in foreign countries, to the
+ * extent that NIST may hold copyright, to use, copy, modify, create derivative
+ * works, and distribute this software and its documentation without fee is hereby
+ * granted on a non-exclusive basis, provided that this notice and disclaimer
+ * of warranty appears in all copies.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
+ * EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY WARRANTY
+ * THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL CONFORM TO SPECIFICATIONS, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+ * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND FREEDOM FROM
+ * INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE DOCUMENTATION WILL CONFORM TO THE
+ * SOFTWARE, OR ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR FREE.  IN NO EVENT
+ * SHALL NIST BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT,
+ * INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF, RESULTING FROM,
+ * OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER OR NOT BASED UPON WARRANTY,
+ * CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, WHETHER OR NOT INJURY WAS SUSTAINED BY PERSONS OR
+ * PROPERTY OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT LOSS WAS SUSTAINED FROM, OR AROSE OUT
+ * OF THE RESULTS OF, OR USE OF, THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER.
+ */
+
+package gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.commands;
+
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.CLIProcessor.CallingContext;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.ExitCode;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.ExitStatus;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.InvalidArgumentException;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.command.AbstractTerminalCommand;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.command.DefaultExtraArgument;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.command.ExtraArgument;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.command.ICommandExecutor;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.metapath.ISequence;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.metapath.MetapathExpression;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.metapath.item.node.IDocumentNodeItem;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.model.IModule;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.model.MetaschemaException;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.model.xml.ModuleLoader;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.util.CollectionUtil;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.core.util.ObjectUtils;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.databind.IBindingContext;
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.databind.io.IBoundLoader;
+
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.NonNull;
+
+public class QueryCommand
+    extends AbstractTerminalCommand {
+  private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger(QueryCommand.class);
+  @NonNull
+  private static final String COMMAND = "query";
+  @NonNull
+  public static final Option CONTENT_OPTION = ObjectUtils.notNull(
+      Option.builder("i")
+          .hasArg()
+          .argName("FILE")
+          //.required()
+          .desc("metaschema content instance resource")
+          .build());
+  @NonNull
+  private static final List<ExtraArgument> EXTRA_ARGUMENTS = ObjectUtils.notNull(List.of(
+      new DefaultExtraArgument("metapath", true)));
+
+  @Override
+  public String getName() {
+    return COMMAND;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getDescription() {
+    return "Execute a Metapath query, optionally with a module and a related instance.";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Collection<? extends Option> gatherOptions() {
+    Collection<? extends Option> orig = super.gatherOptions();
+
+    List<Option> retval = new ArrayList<>(orig.size() + 1);
+    retval.addAll(orig);
+    retval.add(MetaschemaCommandSupport.METASCHEMA_OPTION);
+    retval.add(CONTENT_OPTION);
+
+    return CollectionUtil.unmodifiableCollection(retval);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public List<ExtraArgument> getExtraArguments() {
+    return EXTRA_ARGUMENTS;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void validateOptions(CallingContext callingContext, CommandLine cmdLine) throws InvalidArgumentException {
+    super.validateOptions(callingContext, cmdLine);
+
+    String metaschemaName = cmdLine.getOptionValue(MetaschemaCommandSupport.METASCHEMA_OPTION);
+    Path metaschema = Paths.get(metaschemaName);
+    if (!Files.exists(metaschema)) {
+      throw new InvalidArgumentException("The provided module '" + metaschema + "' does not exist.");
+    }
+    if (!Files.isReadable(metaschema)) {
+      throw new InvalidArgumentException("The provided module '" + metaschema + "' is not readable.");
+    }
+
+    String contentInstanceName = cmdLine.getOptionValue(CONTENT_OPTION);
+    Path contentInstance = Paths.get(contentInstanceName);
+    if (!Files.exists(contentInstance)) {
+      throw new InvalidArgumentException("The provided content instance '" + metaschema + "' does not exist.");
+    }
+    if (!Files.isReadable(contentInstance)) {
+      throw new InvalidArgumentException("The provided content instance '" + metaschema + "' is not readable.");
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public ICommandExecutor newExecutor(CallingContext callingContext, CommandLine commandLine) {
+    return ICommandExecutor.using(callingContext, commandLine, this::executeCommand);
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings({
+      "PMD.OnlyOneReturn", // readability
+      "unused"
+  })
+  protected ExitStatus executeCommand(
+      @NonNull CallingContext callingContext,
+      @NonNull CommandLine cmdLine) {
+    List<String> extraArgs = cmdLine.getArgList();
+
+    String metpath = extraArgs.get(0);
+
+    String metaschemaName = cmdLine.getOptionValue(MetaschemaCommandSupport.METASCHEMA_OPTION);
+    Path metaschema = Paths.get(metaschemaName);
+
+    String contentInstanceName = cmdLine.getOptionValue(CONTENT_OPTION);
+    Path contentInstance = Paths.get(contentInstanceName);
+
+    IBindingContext bindingContext = IBindingContext.instance();
+
+    try {
+      // load the metaschema module
+      ModuleLoader moduleLoader = new ModuleLoader();
+      moduleLoader.allowEntityResolution();
+      IModule module = moduleLoader.load(metaschema);
+
+      // generate class bindings and register them with the binding context
+      Path classPath = Files.createTempDirectory("metaschema-classes-");
+      bindingContext.registerModule(module, classPath);
+    } catch (IOException | MetaschemaException ex) {
+      return ExitCode.PROCESSING_ERROR.exit().withThrowable(ex); // NOPMD readability
+    }
+
+    // load the content
+    IBoundLoader contentLoader = bindingContext.newBoundLoader();
+
+    IDocumentNodeItem contentObject;
+    try {
+      contentObject = contentLoader.loadAsNodeItem(contentInstance);
+    } catch (IOException ex) {
+      return ExitCode.IO_ERROR.exit().withThrowable(ex);
+    }
+
+    // executing the query against the content
+    ISequence<?> sequence = MetapathExpression.compile(metpath).evaluate(contentObject);
+    LOGGER.info(sequence);
+
+    return ExitCode.OK.exit();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/metaschema-cli/src/test/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLITest.java b/metaschema-cli/src/test/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLITest.java
index d67c991a5..95e6f0b1a 100644
--- a/metaschema-cli/src/test/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLITest.java
+++ b/metaschema-cli/src/test/java/gov/nist/secauto/metaschema/cli/CLITest.java
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@
 
 package gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli;
 
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertAll;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
 
+import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.commands.QueryCommand;
 import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.ExitCode;
 import gov.nist.secauto.metaschema.cli.processor.ExitStatus;
 
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.NonNull;
+import nl.altindag.log.LogCaptor;
 
 /**
  * Unit test for simple CLI.
@@ -161,4 +164,16 @@ void testAllCommands(@NonNull String[] args, @NonNull ExitCode expectedExitCode,
       evaluateResult(CLI.runCli(fullArgs), expectedExitCode, expectedThrownClass);
     }
   }
+
+  @Test
+  void testQueryCommand() {
+    LogCaptor logCaptor = LogCaptor.forClass(QueryCommand.class);
+    String[] args
+        = new String[] { "query", "-m", "../databind/src/test/resources/metaschema/fields_with_flags/metaschema.xml",
+            "-i",
+            "../databind/src/test/resources/metaschema/fields_with_flags/example.json", "3 + 4 + 5",
+            "--show-stack-trace" };
+    CLI.runCli(args);
+    assertThat(logCaptor.getInfoLogs()).containsExactly("[12]");
+  };
 }